Weird Ghosts by Joanne Austin & Mark Sceurman

Author:Joanne Austin & Mark Sceurman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sterling

MYRTLE HILL CEMETERY Myrtle Hill Road, Valley City, OH 44280

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THE LADY IN GRAY

by Andrew Henderson

A melancholy ghost haunts the rows at Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery, on the west side of Columbus, Ohio. Known as the Lady in Gray, she usually weeps quietly over the grave of one Benjamin F. Allen, a private in the 50th Tennessee Regiment, Company D. Allen’s grave is number 233 out of 2,260 Confederate soldiers laid to rest in this two-acre plot in the capital city of a very Northern state.

The cemetery in Columbus’s Hilltop neighborhood marks the place where a prisoner of war camp stood more than 140 years ago, though at the time the location was well outside the city limits. In May 1861, a Union military training ground named Camp Jackson was established here. By July of that year, when the first prisoners were admitted, its name was changed to honor President Lincoln’s Secretary of State (and later Chief Justice of the United States), Hamilton County native Salmon P. Chase.

At first, Camp Chase took only officers as prisoners, with enlisted men imprisoned at Fort Warren, near Boston Harbor. A large number of the officers were captured during 1862 Union victories at Fort Donelson, Tennessee, and Mississippi Island No. 10. But by the beginning of 1863, some 8,000 men of every rank were incarcerated behind the high staked walls of the camp, necessitating the building of a stockade on Johnson’s Island in Lake Erie. Most of the officers imprisoned at Camp Chase were transferred to Johnson’s Island once the stockade was completed.

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